New Opportunity: Teaching Art At A Christian School
As you may know, Christian schools around this area are pretty small. This school only has classroom teachers- they do not have a special PE teacher, art teacher, or music teacher- so needless to say, the kids have been excited to have me there. And I am excited to be there! Class sizes are 5-12 kids, and they are so eager to learn!
Working with these students has made it clear and confirmed that I am pursuing the right career, and teaching art is what I want to do!
I have been working hard on lesson plans, so I thought I would share one with you!
Romero Britto Art Line Lesson
I was so interested and inspired by Britto's happy, Pop Art that I bought his book and began dreaming up lessons I could make for my students.
I created this Power Point to present the artist, his work, and the assignment to students in grades 3-8 ( revised instruction for each grade). I also presented Line as an Element of art that the students should focus on as they work on this project.
We noted that he uses:
-Strong Black Outlines
-Bright, Happy Colors
-Interesting patterns
-Basic, Simple Shapes
-Unrealistic, geometric images
-Pop Culture Images
And these things became the requirements for the project. The students were allowed to choose a subject of their choice to create a piece of art in the style of Britto. The notes above were what they had to do to make it in the style of Britto.
I had the students use black sharpies to create their thick, black outlines. Then they could use markers, crayons or colored pencils to add their bright colors and patterns. I had to remind them to use simple shapes, and showed them the Power Point and my Britto Book to give examples of this.
For older students, I showed them all of Britto's ad campaigns, posters, and logos that her revised. Older students love the idea of using images they can copy and add too. It's pretty fun!
They all turned out great!
Let me know if you try your own Britto Project!
-J